Vietnamese holidays

Many of them have already sold out more than half of their tours planned for Tet and foresee a growth of 12-30% in business compared to last Tet. Besides short-haul tours to some Asian countries such as Malaysia and China, outbound tours to long-haul destinations, such as the Republic of Korea, Japan, Australia, the US and Dubai, are now favoured by many Vietnamese holiday-goers. Dau tu (Investment) newspaper quoted Nguyen Tien Dat, deputy director of TransViet, as saying that his company had sold out over 90% of tours for Tet holidays, with buyers of long-haul outbound tours making up 20-30% of the total. Ta Thi Cam Vinh, who is in charge of outbound tours at Ben Thanh Tourist, said her company’s tours to the Republic of Korea, Dubai and Australia were fully booked. The number of customers booking overseas tours this Tet season has increased by 20-25%. The cost of these tours has also gone up by 20% due to higher air fares, Vinh told the Thoi bao Kinh te Saigon (Sai Gon … [Read more...] about Tour firms set for profitable Tet holiday

Vietnamese tourists favor Japan trips Thuy Dung By Thuy Dung - The Saigon Times Daily HANOI – Japan estimated to welcome around 80,000 Vietnamese travelers in 2013, up by a staggering rate of over 50% against 2012, while the number of Japanese tourists to Vietnam was the third largest last year, said the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO). Speaking at the tourism promotion seminar in Hanoi City on Wednesday, Vu The Binh, deputy chairman of the Vietnam Tourism Association, said that Japan has become an attractive destination for Vietnamese holiday-makers due to tourism promotion policies. Meanwhile, Japan has also become one of nations with biggest tourist numbers to Vietnam over the past years. The association has plans to establish a Japan outbound club, grouping 25 leading travel firms to design Japan tours for Vietnamese guests. The association will also inaugurate a tourism representative office in Japan, the first overseas travel office of Vietnam. With … [Read more...] about Vietnamese tourists favor Japan trips

Four tourists died Monday when violent currents swept them off the coast of Cua Lo beach in Nghe An Province while they were swimming. One more swimmer is missing and presumed dead.
The five men had all come from Hanoi to celebrate Liberation Day, a national Vietnamese holiday commemorating the victory over the former Saigon regime, April 30, 1975. … [Read more...] about Four holiday swimmers drown, one missing

He met with reporters from China’s major media agencies and newspapers like Xinhua, People’s Daily, China Central Television, China National Radio and China Youth Daily, and representatives of Chinese press management agencies in Beijing on January 11. Vietnamese Ambassador to China Dang Minh Khoi (C) at the event The ambassador used the occasion to brief the Chinese media on Vietnam’s major socio-economic achievements and big strides in the Vietnam-China relationship in 2017, as reflected through high-level meetings and visits of the two countries’ leaders. Khoi highlighted the visits to China by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong in January 2017 and President Tran Dai Quang in May 2017. Most recently, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and President Xi Jinping visited Vietnam and attended at the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in November 2017 attach to ties with … [Read more...] about Vietnamese Ambassador meets Chinese press

On January 6, 39 people of the group departed from the Soekarno–Hatta International Airport in Jakarta. Most of the leaving was held captivity on Indonesian islands as deponents at trials for their ship captains. A day earlier, 21 Vietnamese fishermen were repatriated. Eleven more will make their journey home on January 10.Tran Minh Cu, Counsellor of the Vietnamese Embassy, said more repatriation trips like these will be organised before the lunar New Year holiday.These fishermen were said to have not been equipped with sufficient legal knowledge; many of them were abandoned by their captains when being arrested. Their disadvantaged backgrounds made it hard for them to complete procedures to return to Vietnam. Some said they will stop sailing and seek other livelihoods on land.According to the embassy, in 2017, about 110 Vietnamese fishing boats caught fish in Indonesia’s waters and close to 1,300 fishermen were captured for the violation, compared with 58 boats and … [Read more...] about Indonesia repatriates Vietnamese fishermen ahead of lunar New Year